Your Favourite Shot of 2007

[Cerianthus 55]

I envy all the clean shots before. Mine or never that clean.

 

A shot that is not near to perfect, but always makes me smile (because of the way you look through the eyes. These labrids were just annoying because they would move too fast to take a decent shot....

 

 

and I'm gonna cheat as well, I think this could be my best (altough another one of the same subject people liked more at flickr). I like the alternating of sharp and unsharp. maybe some more backscatter cloning.....:

 

(maybe best viewed full size

 

(forgot to mention: both using 20D in ikelite, 60mm macro, dual DS-50 strobes)

Edited December 20, 2007 by Cerianthus

[belizediversity 0]

This moment still stands out in my mind as a high light for this years diving.

 

 

[Carlos_Suarez 0]

Pigmy seahorse in blue

Edited December 21, 2007 by Carlos_Suarez

[Accipiter_13 0]

Not really a patch on the rest but this was from my first dive with an external strobe and the first photo that came out like I had envisioned it

 

 

Heres to getting better over the next year

 

Happy winterval/summerval everyone

[Islandbound 1]

Not my best photographically speaking but the image itself makes me smile whenever I see it!

 

[moustique 0]

Hey, really hard to decide on one shot

 

let's go for this one :

this cool cowfish just stopped a second to take a closer look at me, then went on his way searchin for dinner...

 

[vinny 0]

Saw this little fella hiding in an anemone and only had one shot at him

due to the current being a bit strong

[wchen 1]

Fiji in April. I like the cute pilot fish.

 

 

Exposure: 0.01 sec (1/100)

Aperture: f/7.1

Focal Length: 16 mm

ISO Speed: 100

[Steve Williams 0]

Here is my favorite, a nice turtle having a jelly snack. Cozumel, drifting along waiting for the boat to pick me up. When I saw him headed towards me he had a look in his eye like he was going somewhere, I turned and saw the jelly floating beside me. I was able to time it exactly like I saw it. Shot with a Nikonos & 20mm.

 

 

The other reason it's my favorite is it convinced me it was time to put the film away and go digital. Color is off, partly due to scanner issues. Still need to play in CS3 with it. Not a great image but it was fun!

 

Steve

[gavinparsons 1]

Here's the image I'm most pleased about from a trip to the polar bear capital of the world.

 

Its taken with a D2x with 12-24mm zoom in a Nexus housing,

[Simon Rogerson 0]

There's some great shots from everyone this year. Here's my contribution – a hammerhead school over white sand at Darwin in the northern Galapagos, taken during what was supposed to be a safety stop while speeding along in a fast current. Not my most artistic, but a different sorta shot, and the first of a series of five before the school parted and fled.

[kriptap 0]

I have a few photos I like this year but for some reason this one comes to mind. I suppose because it was the only shot I got off, then they moved.

 

[Alex_Mustard 0]

More great stuff. Thanks guys for joining the fun.

 

Alex

[bmyates 3]

Great stuff, everybody!

 

I took this on the Wetpixel shark & dolphin Shearwater trip in the Bahamas. For dolphins, we just used snorkel gear and had to swim as fast as we could to try to keep up with the small dolphin pods we encountered (I've described them as small "traveling circuses" because they kept just moving whether we were there or not).

 

I think I was the most out-of-shape person in the group, so when we did get a few minutes with a pod, I was generally at the (rear) fringe of the group , whereas the more athletic members (e.g., Eric) were in the middle of the pod! <_< But I did get a few shots I liked, and this one ended up as my favorite:

 

 

Taken with Canon 1D MkIIN in Seacam housing, Sigma 15mm FE lens.

[EstebanTore 0]

My favorite photo from 2007 in Maldives with an Olympus E330

 

Edited December 24, 2007 by EstebanTore

[scubamarli 5]

Well, as others have said before me, not technically my favorite, but my favorite as it epitomizes the wonder of man in the ocean when he comes across the fantastic. It also has the love of photo connection, and it was a kick-ass dive. Oops, did I say that??? Anyway, Mary Island ROCKS. Oh, and it may have been my last film dive....maybe. Gotta love the sunball.

Happy New Year to all,

Marli

[ehanauer 37]

I was trying for a sunburst silhouette in Jellyfish Lake, Palau, and did multiple free dives to about 12 feet, then shot my wife, Karen, coming up. This one worked the best. An added bonus was that Snell's Window looked like a globe of the earth. So it ended up being our holiday card .

 

 

 

[hydraulicphoto 0]

Happy Holidays!

Edited December 25, 2007 by hydraulicphoto

[Tim Digger 1]

Hi Alex

My/our diving split 50.50 between tropical and Dosthill Quarry UK.

This is my favourite (inspite of Indonesia trip),I have been pursuing the Dosthill Quarry pike all year, this looks more like a tropical shot but only photo shop for colour balance and exposure (it was a nice day!)

Nikon D70s Ikelite housing and strobes Sigma 17-70 zoom.

 

Happy Christmas Tim Digger

Edited December 25, 2007 by Tim Digger

[rhlee 2]

 

Point Lobos State Reserve, Carmel CA

[Marcelo Krause 1]

Here is mine. Guadalupe Island, Nikon D2x, 12-24mm, Aquatica Housing.

Happy Hollidays!!!

 

Marcelo Krause.

 

[tdpriest 115]

I'm very impressed: everyone gets their fish to look at the camera!

 

My favourite, for entirely egotistical reasons: despite being mounted upside down in exhibition, this made the Diver magazine calendar for 2008:

 

 

 

 

But, to REALLY cheat, these came very, very close:

 

 

 

 

 

I suppose that there IS eye contact...

 

All taken with a Nikon D70 in a Nexus housing with twin Inon Z220 strobes. This Sudan trip was the camera's last outing: it has now gone to a new home. I wish it well!

 

 

Tim

 

 

B)

[pats0n 0]

my favorite shot for this year comes from my favorite place for this year - Cocos Island, Costa Rica

 

 

 

Alex Safonov

 

http://pats0n.livejournal.com/tag/underwater+photo

[adamhanlon 0]

Hi all,

 

I think this is my favourite shot of 2007. At the very least it has convinced me that it is possible to get great results underwater!!!

 

 

2007 and has been a great year-I re-discovered underwater photography and found Wetpixel! Many thanks for the support and advice that you all give so freely on here.

 

All the very best to everyone for the holidays, and great diving/photography in 2008.

 

Adam

[dmoss 0]

Bonaire in October